Spain v France LIVE: Euro 2024 result and final score as Lamine Yamal wondergoal knocks out Kylian Mbappe
Spain 2-1 France: The 16-year-old Lamine Yamal scored a stunning goal as La Roja advanced to the Berlin final, where they will face England or the Netherlands
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Your support makes all the difference.Spain’s Lamine Yamal scored a wondergoal to become the youngest scorer in men’s European Championship history to help knock out tournament favourites France and reach the final of Euro 2024.
The 16-year-old fired a stunning strike into the top cover from outside the penalty area to equalise after Randal Kolo Muani’s early opener in the semi-final in Munich. And Dani Olmo then struck moments later to give Spain the lead, as his goal-bound shot deflected in off France defender Jules Kounde.
Spain looked to contain France in a tight second half that saw few chances, but captain Kylian Mbappe blazed over the bar when finally getting a sight of goal and manager Didier Deschamps’ attacking changes did not help to force a late equaliser as La Roja held on.
Spain are through to their first men’s final since last winning the Euros in 2012 and will face either England or the Netherlands in Berlin on Sunday. Gareth Southgate’s side play the Dutch tomorrow night looking to reach consecutive Euro finals after defeat to Italy three years ago.
Follow all the latest updates from Spain v France below:
Lamine Yamal signals Spain’s next golden era to leave France with one regret
If this is to be Spain’s first men’s trophy since the glory era of 2008-12, there couldn’t be a better signal of a new era than the youngest player in the history of the European Championships scoring the goal to set them on their way to the final. Kylian Mbappe, having finally taken his mask off, will not be showing his face in Berlin on Sunday. The final will instead see a star who may well be his successor, in Lamine Yamal. He had already illuminated Euro 2024 and now he has elevated it, scoring a sensational strike that transformed Spain’s 2-1 comeback against France. It was both genius in the manner of the strike and in how he delivered something like that when his team really needed it.
This was a launchpad moment. It may also have been a moment of realisation for France, whose minimalist football reached its limits. Having told people all tournament to change the channel if they don’t like what they’re seeing, Didier Deschamps may have to do the same on Sunday. It’s hard not to think France have so wasted a generation, to the point they looked a dull side with the talent looking nowhere near the level it should.
Lamine Yamal signals Spain’s next golden era to leave France with one regret
Spain 2-1 France: The 16-year-old’s stunning goal turned the tide on Kylian Mbappe to reach the Euro 2024 final
Spain v France was pure excitement... Didier Deschamps would choose boredom every time
“If you’re getting bored, watch another game.” It was Didier Deschamps’s challenge to his critics. It promised to be the prelude to another exercise in Deschampsball, shutting a game down with a bank of defensive midfielders and a formidable rearguard. And yet what followed was so exciting that the France manager may have sought to divert his attention to something drearier.
Because there was a downside to entertainment. For France, anyway. Perhaps the pragmatist in Deschamps feared as much. Les Bleus had plotted a unique path to the last four, when none of their players scored in open play but neither did they concede in it. Then waits ended; at either end, it transpired.
The French drought had lasted 488 minutes, until they scored a goal of such seeming simplicity to make it seem stranger still that it had lasted so long; Kylian Mbappe, possibly the world’s best player, chipped a cross to the far post and Randal Kolo Muani, an €80m striker, headed in.
After Spain v France excitement, Didier Deschamps would choose boredom each time
Spain 2-1 France: These were two teams with different concepts of control, and the Spanish ideal won out in the Euro 2024 semi-final
Injury fears for Alvaro Morata as photographer falls on Spain captain’s knee
Alvaro Morata appeared to twist his knee on Wednesday as a photographer slid into the Spain captain, who was celebrating his team’s Euro 2024 semi-final win.
Spain came from behind to beat France 2-1 in Munich, where Lamine Yamal became the youngest-ever goalscorer at a men’s Euros.
Yamal, 16, scored a wondergoal for Spain to cancel out Randal Kolo Muani’s opener, before Dani Olmo struck to put La Roja ahead. And there was no way back for France, as Spain set up a final with Netherlands or England.
Injury fears for Alvaro Morata as photographer falls on Spain captain’s knee
A photographer rushed to capture the celebrations of Spanish players after their Euro 2024 semi-final win – only to slide into Morata
Netherlands v England TV channel, start time and how to watch Euro 2024 semi-final online
England have reached a third semi-final in four men’s international tournaments and Gareth Southgate will hope his team can go one better than three years ago when they were losing finalists on home soil.
First, though, they need to get past Netherlands after beating Switzerland on penalties in the quarter-finals. The Oranje, meanwhile, beat Turkey 2-1 at the same stage.
Neither nation have been entirely convincing at Euro 2024 this summer but both have managed to find a way to progress - albeit after the Dutch side finished third in their group, before knocking out Romania in the last 16.
The game kicks off at 8pm BST on Wednesday 10 July in Dortmund, and it will be broadcast live on ITV 1 and STV, while UK viewers can stream the game via the ITV X and STV Player platforms and apps. You can find a full list of which channel is showing each match here.
Netherlands v England TV channel, time and how to watch semi-final online
A place in the final is up for grabs as Three Lions and Oranje meet in Dortmund
Netherlands vs England referee: Who is Euro 2024 official Felix Zwayer?
German referee Felix Zwayer will take charge of England’s Euro 2024 semi-final against the Netherlands on Wednesday, 10 July in Dortmund.
The experienced official, 43, has been refereeing since 2005, but was given a six-month ban from officiating by the German Football Federation in 2006 after accepting a €300 bribe to cover up for fellow official Robert Hoyzer.
Zwayer later brought Hoyzer’s match-fixing plot to light, and after his ban he rebuilt his own reputation and his career, despite Hoyzer being banned for life.
Who is Netherlands vs England referee Felix Zwayer?
The 43-year-old has previously been banned from officiating after accepting bribes
Gareth Southgate urges England to seize ‘chance to make history’
Gareth Southgate says England are ready to make history by reaching a first final on foreign soil, having been inhibited earlier in the Euros by expectations and louder external noise than ever before.
After topping their group in unconvincing fashion, the Euro 2020 runners-up needed a stunning Jude Bellingham strike to save their blushes against Slovakia before beating Switzerland on penalties.
England are now preparing for a third semi-final in four major tournaments, with Ronald Koeman’s Netherlands standing between them and a second successive European Championship final.
Gareth Southgate urges England to seize ‘chance to make history’
England take on the Netherlands for a place in the Euro 2024 final.
Gareth Southgate’s England revolution shouldn’t be overlooked just because it’s dull
England have been playing international football for 152 years but it may be wrong to throw it back that far. They could have ventured to World Cups before the Second World War but, in their arrogance and isolationism, chose not to; they first played in a tournament in 1950, 74 years ago.
Since then, there were four semi-finals: 1966, 1968 (in a four-team tournament), 1990 and 1996, only two on home soil. Then came the Southgate years and there have been three more. They are coming at three-year intervals: 2018, 2021 (in the delayed Euro 2020) and now 2024.
Maybe England are living in the golden years, even if they don’t know it. They have ploughed the most prosaic path possible to the semi-finals of Euro 2024 but they are there. Gareth Southgate’s three semi-finals put him ahead of Alf Ramsey, with two, and Bobby Robson and Terry Venables, who reached one apiece.
Southgate’s England revolution shouldn’t be overlooked just because it’s dull
England haven’t thrilled on the pitch all the time – but they have kept winning, progressing and reaching exciting matches. Does that matter more?
We’re ready to create history – Declan Rice knows England can win Euro 2024
Declan Rice insists England are “ready to create history” by winning Euro 2024 and ending a 58-year wait for major men’s silverware.
Gareth Southgate’s side face the Netherlands in the last four on Wednesday looking to book their place in back-to-back finals.
A penalty shoot-out defeat to Italy at Euro 2020 is the closest the men’s team have come to matching the achievements of the 1966 World Cup winners.
Rice was part of the squad that was beaten at Wembley in 2021 but believes it is now time for the trophy drought to end.
We’re ready to create history – Declan Rice knows England can win Euro 2024
Gareth Southgate’s side face the Netherlands in the last four on Wednesday looking to book their place in back-to-back finals.
The six-year behind-the-scenes process which led to England’s perfect penalties
England beat Switzerland on penalties in the Euro 2024 quarter-final thanks to a changed secret approach that involved rethinking every detail of a penalty shootout, right down to the steps that players take and where they should look. One insight was even to not practise too much, as this can have a detrimental effect on nerves.
The Football Association have been so protective of these decisive tie-winning approaches that they stopped players like Jordan Pickford and Ezri Konsa going into too much detail about the “process” after Saturday’s quarter-final win, but some of the elements have been revealed in a book by an influential former staff member. Chris Markham, who is now sporting director at Bolton Wanderers, previously worked as Game Insights Lead at the FA for four years and through the watershed 2018 World Cup.
He was personally thanked by Gareth Southgate after that crucial 2018 last-16 win over Colombia in Russia. The manager first consulted Markham in 2017, before staging a wider meeting to convince the players in March 2018. Although the Euro 2020 final shootout against Italy showed there was still work to do, the results were seen in the five perfect penalties against Switzerland.
The six-year behind-the-scenes process which led to England’s perfect penalties
Five out of five scored – and one saved by Jordan Pickford – sent England to the Euro 2024 semi-finals
Phil Foden hails ‘improvement’ in England attack with new role in formation reshuffle
Phil Foden believes Gareth Southgate’s change of formation suits him better and will help bring the best out of Jude Bellingham and him.
Southgate switched to a 3-4-2-1 system for England’s Euro 2024 quarter-final win over Switzerland with Foden, who had played on the left when England opted for 4-2-3-1, instead given a new role as the right-sided No 10.
And the Manchester City player believes it liberated him by allowing him to take up more different positions and to trouble the Swiss.
Foden hails ‘improvement’ in England attack with new role in formation reshuffle
Foden has yet to really shine at the tournament but is likely to remain a starter for Gareth Southgate
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